Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-16
THE RICHMOND D1spATCH--sUNDAY. JANUARY IS 1887

taught TO read and write. The boy
who is about sixteen years OF age, M
| Just returned TO San Francisco, IN
father having written to Mrs. Langtry
TO allow him to leave her emp oy, an
he is now engaged in pursuing M
studies in far different atmosph r,
than that in which he was accustomed
to in the Lily's residence in New iorh
city.
The Office of oil inspectors a valulbl
one III Minnesota lie gets twenty 1v-
cents a barrel for inspecting oil. IN US
there were 81, 100 barrels Of OIL iusp ct
ed, the fees Of which, at twenty-five
cents per barrel, amounted to 81, ~.
OF this, from 1000 to $4,000 may be
deducted for deputies salaries, leaving
the remainder to line the pockets OF
the Inspector Only sixty barrels wora
reiected-the oil OF the Pennsylvania
OIL Company, which registered lO2 de-
grces. During the fiscal year ending
July !, 1886, there we're 82,3i2 barrels
inspected, OF which only 63 were re
iected. The inspectors fees amounted
to so, $500.
The reviewer of the London Time.
thinks that american fiction i'll its latest
phase shows mn excess in the power o.
uainting realistic detail over the power
OF grasping what Goethe called mo
tives that some of the now senior
novelists are very skilful III mOfCirca,
but that they work in the slightest and
fimsiest material, and mostly on Sub
iects drawn from town life. He thinks,
also. that the Younger school, repre-
scented partly by Miss Murfree, have q
great command of new and fresh detail.
especially in connection with rural and
outlandsh life, but are decidedly weak
in that inner logical structure on which
all great work in fiction depends.
4 powder that is composed chiefly OF
phosphorous, and designed to supplant
ordinary gunpowdcr for stage purposes,
has been devised by a New York in
ventor, who, as n test of its qualities,
placed himself in the midst of a dozen
or more "supcrs at a theatre day or
two ago, and permitted them to blaze
away Mt him with their muskets only n
few inches from his head II is put up
in cartridges so thin that when dis
charged the whole charge completely
disappears. No trace OF it can be found.
Thercrort is described as being rs loud,
the fame as vivid and the smoke APP
parently as dense as that Of ordinary
9unrowder hut it has the advantage OF
giving forth no odor.
About two months ago. in n friendly
scuflie with friend, c. II. Barber, of
Florence, $. c., had n small pencil,
which was in his opponents pocket,
run into his eye. The pencil. which
WAS about IN inch and quarter long,
penetrated the eve, and became SO COM
pletcly embedded therein as to battle
The efforts of the surgeon TO extract it.
After remaining in the eye about six
weeks the pencil worked itself ont, and
it was then thought that, with the cX-
ception of the loss of the eye, Mr. Bar
Der would suder no other inconve-
nience, but in few days it became eyl-
dent that the lead had poisoned the
optic nerve, and soon after the brain
became similarly affected. Barber lin
gered in great agony until yesterday,
when he died. The autopsy showed
that the brain had literally rottcd away,
The clever Queen of Roumania l.
making herself more useful than the
modem queen IL generally apt to be.
She has been accustomed for some time
past to give lectures privately in her
palace to tue young ladies of the lead
ing families in Roumanin. These lite
raIy assemblies proved SO attractive that
the demands for admission to them
grow incOnvcmient, SO that the Queen
thought Of delivering her lectures in
the high school to all pupils who cared
to attend. Before her Majesty could
do this, however, she had to obtain Il
regular professors diploma from the
King and the Minister OF Instruction.
This required an examination, to which
the Queen submitted, and, the diploma
having now been won, not granted by
favor, her Majesty will begin her lee
lures carly in the new year ut the high
school for girls at Bucharest.
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